2 charged in fraudulent attempt to get drug at Springfield pharmacy

Suspects allegedly had a fake prescription at local pharmacy

10:41 AM,
Aug. 19, 2013

Kimberly Pemberton

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Two Arkansas residents have been charged with fraudulently trying to obtain a controlled substance in Springfield after they allegedly tried to use a fake prescription to buy Oxycodone.

Nicholas Weeks, 26, of Henderson, and Kimberly Rose Pemberton, 41, of Mountain Home, were both charged Tuesday in Greene County, according to court documents. The two allegedly tried to buy Oxycodone at a Springfield pharmacy Nov. 29. Employees at the pharmacy, a Walgreens, called police.

Court documents said the two were part of a larger group of people passing numerous fake prescriptions in northern ...